Restrict all student profile image change/replacement

JedKeenan

We are integrating SIS with Canvas and the plan is to have user portrait images populate from SIS to Canvas.

Is there a Canvas-wide admin setting that restricts students from changing their profile image?

If not, then is there an alternative method that you can recommend?

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Chris_Hofer

Hi thee, @JedKeenan ...

I not sure there is a setting in the Canvas UI for administrators that would not allow for students to upload their own image. There might be a way to do this with some custom code, but I am not sure how that would be done. I spent a few minutes looking through Canvas topics and ideas to see if I could find anything related. The only thing I found was this:

Profile Pictures - Sticky or visible with Avatar t... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

The idea process recently changed to "Ideas and Themes" (formerly "Feature Ideas") which you can read more about here:

New Ideas & Themes Now Live - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

I know this might not be the answer you were looking for, but I hope that in some way it's helped to answer your question.

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